Sermon Series

Luke: Right side up in an upside down world

What if the world were upside down? What if its entire system of values, goodness, honor, and success were upside down? What would happen if someone who was right side up entered into it? The Gospel of Luke tells the story of what happened when Jesus came to the upside down world to turn it right side up and it invites us to join him.

Why should I continue to follow Jesus when the cost becomes greater than the benefit? This is a fundamental question that everyone who follows Jesus or is considering following Jesus must answer.

If we are following Jesus to get social acceptance, what will we do when it is not socially acceptable to follow Jesus? If we are following Jesus to help our career, what will we do when following Jesus is limiting our career options? If we are following Jesus because we want him to guarantee the American dream of affluence and personal peace, what will we do when we discover that real Christianity may make us poor and has meant that for many Christians around the world they are exposed to persecution and marginalization?

The writer of Hebrews is delivering a message to ancient Christians who are having to answer this exact question and many of them are tempted to abandon Jesus because the cost has become too great. Today Christians in the US and around the world face the same question; if commitment to Jesus could cost me everything, what makes commitment to Jesus worth it?

Freedom is a powerful word, but few of us experience it. Humans all over the world live our lives in societal, poitical, and spiritual bondage. Exodus is the thrilling story of how God delivered slaves out of bondage and made them the treasured people of his promise.

Who was Jesus? What happened during his life? What did he really say and teach? And what happened after his execution that would make people proclaim that not only had he returned from death, but that by believing in him we too could have eternal life? What would make the eyewitnesses to these events willing to endure suffering, persecution, torture and death to proclaim that he had risen?

Grace and Peace church will explore the account of John, one of Jesus' disciples, who had a front row seat to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Paul writes the Letter to the Galatians to share the amazing and freeing truth with the churches at Galatia that the free grace and forgiveness of God in Jesus is not only how we begin our relationship with God but it is how we advance in it as well...